Monthly Archives: April 2017

Well – Here we are – roughly one week away! I am not thrilled to death with where I am – BUT it’s aint horrid! So I’ll take it 🙂
I think I took too long to find my way – THINK? I know, I took too long to find my way to where I am mentally and nutritionally 🙂

I have a bit more fat than I wanted to be taking with me – BUT I look pretty good for a 48 year old ???? I have one more week – Maybe I can drop a couple more pounds. A couple pounds on a 5 foot frame can look like a lot. In the last 12 days I have lost 6 pounds – UGH just think where I could be if I had found this information a month ago 🙂 Oh, Well – I’ll be smokin’ by my birthday! Then I’ll look awesome for a 49 year old.

So those are the cheeky bottoms I ordered and the new top I picked up on clearance. It will be one of my go to suits while there, C’est la vie.

I don’t have the brain power to break down what I am doing nutritionally right now. TINA – If you are reading, I need to make sure I share with you the new tiny tweak I have figured out to make KETO just zooom through the weight loss and NOT be hungry!!! EVER.

OK Have a great weekend!!!!! Maybe Monday we will get into to Diets ????

HI!!!
I know I have said if I’m quiet it means I’m off beating myself up for not following my plan. But this time I have been just off executing my plan ????

In the last week I have lost 5.4 Pounds. I am down to 126.7 with an average loss of .2 pounds a day. I have not limited my calories at all. I am not starving and I have energy and I am happy and proud. Look at this!

I’m pretty sure I will be under 125 when we go ???????????? I can’t wait – this weekend is our last weekend at home and we have so much to do. The fact that my husband works weekends kind of stinks. I need to find some motivation to get some of the things done myself, without waiting for him to be here to “help”.

I need to go though my closet and get my clothes tried on so I know what I can bring and not wait until the last second and try and pack and find nothing fits! I tried my dress on again yesterday. If these last few pounds drop off it’s going to look way better than I could have hoped. ????????

I want to share some more about my diet but I have several things I HAVE to go get done. I will get some more information out here as soon as I can.

Feeling good. As you can see by the middle picture that has been my week of weight-loss. I know it is mostly bloat due to cutting starchy carbs. BUT I am going down eating 1500-1800 calories a day and not starving myself. My ratios are like 80% Fat, 11% Protein and 7% carbs. Carbs coming from avocado and nuts mostly.

I have been listening to the Dr’s YouTube channel that I shared yesterday. He shared the Carbs/Insulin 4 Dummies picture in one of his presentations and I loved it so I went and found it on line to share – sorry I can’t give credit to the author as I have no idea where it originated – but I do not claim credit for it. I just thought it was perfect.

We are 15 days out from our trip. I am right now at 128.8 if I keep losing .2 pounds a day I will be at 126 in 15 days. Not the 125 I wanted but close! I also have the potential to loss more or not lose that .2 a day so we shall see where I end up. Either way – I’m happy with where I am. my husband loves me and it really is about me and my goals. So I’ll be happy to spend 2 weeks alone with my guy on the shores of paradise barely dressed ????

I went shopping with my sister last night and I found this cute CUTE dress! It was on the clearance rack so it was half off the price it was already marked down to…so I paid $14.98 with tax ????

I looked on their website but could not find it because it is being cleared out. BUT I found one similar to share a picture of, I am not sharing me in mine until I wear it out in Hawaii 🙂So mine is this same material and color with the embellishments and fits very similar. Not quite as long and its a dress not a top and skirt. I need to find some shoes – something universal that I can wear again with another dress I bring. Maybe a nude color shoe…

I am day 4 into doing very well with my keto plan. I joined a new group and have watched a few video’s that REALLY gave me some light bulb moments. Let me share a few little nuggets. You are not overweight simply because you eat too much or sit around too much. It is not as simple as eat less move more. I have preached that for soooo long I almost feel like I need to apologize. You are overweight due to your hormones and not the ones that you can’t control 😉 Insulin. Insulin’s job is to store fat for later use. You eat things that spikes your insulin – it goes to work. So I will share the link to a great video and you can watch if you want. But ME and my very short 5ft frame have been limiting my calories for years and gaining and losing weight for years. As of today I can tell you I have been eating around 1800 calories a day and I am losing weight for the first time in a couple weeks 🙂 I think when I posted on Monday or Tuesday I told you I hate starving. I’m not! and that makes me happy ????

All the time in the past I would workout more and cut calories more and spiral out of control and then overeat – ???? then beat myself up and blah blah blah. Watch this guy!!! Learn how to stop beating yourself up.

I can’t say I hate where I am physically. But I had hoped to be closer to my goal by now 🙂 BUT last week I slipped a bit. i HATE being hungry and last week I was hungry and ate all the things. This week I am back on track and actually cutting carbs. I was sooooo eating ALL the sugar last week.
My grandson is potty training so we have bags of Smarties sitting around for treats if he goes potty in his potty chair. I was walking by and grabbing random handfuls of those ALL OF THE TIME! And my husband has a bag of caramel sitting on his night stand that I used to go visit randomly. I was staying very close to my calorie limit right up until the last three days. I just said Fuck It and ate whatever. It’s not easy – but I’m working it now. Back down to 129 so not too much damage.

We are officially 17 days away from our trip. We have not even looked at what to pack – other than our little shopping trip last Monday…Oh Last Monday’s dinner outing was what helped my go off track LOL It was so yummy. I had a why can’t I eat like this all the time moment. It’s good. I’m good now ????

I’m in “shop for sexy dress mode” this week. That is why I’m kind of kicking myself for the diet slip 🙁 Oh well – it is what it is . I will find something and it will be awesome!

Working out – building muscles – burning fat…that is what I am doing. When I get quiet like I did over the last 5-6 days you can be assured I’m over here hiding from reality that I have not managed to talk myself through or and making plans for my epic comeback.

So I have two main things that are on my mind. 1) My butt cheeks HURTS! I had an full body massage, with focus on my right glute and hamstring. The issue is my piriformis muscle. It’s super tight. In order for them to get pressure on the piriformis muscle they have to get THROUGH the glute. So an elbow to the glute for about a good 10 minutes. It made me sweat! So today my hip pain has improved – but boy does my butt cheek hurt! 2) while looking up these pictures to share I noticed in the anatomy picture the glute/hamstring tie in tendon is right where I have a chunk of shit I want to blast away.

I like looking at anatomy picture to help me figure out what is where. The white stuff is where you are more likely to get fascial adhesions. So this make sense to me. And that glute muscle is the one I want to grow bigger ❤ I’m working on a heart shaped booty. Maybe I need to start heading to the gym when I wake up at 4:30 so I can use the leg machines in the gym without an audience or having to wait to get on the leg/butt machines.

Yesterday afternoon we went to the tanning salon to get my hubby set up with some minutes and get him going on a base tan before our vacation. While he tanned, I tried on bathing suits. I found a top all by it’s lonesome on clearance for $14.99. It will go perfectly with my solid black cheeky and thong.

I am starting a three week push to drop these last 5 pounds I want off before vacation on Monday. I told my hubby last night I was going to try really hard to not drink to…you should have seen the look I got. Kind of disbelieving grin LOL Then I said “well, maybe” LOL I don’t want to sound like a lush because I am not. I do not need to drink. I enjoy a couple in the evening after/with dinner. But I also hate to wake up with a hangover so I have learned to stop at two or three. And that would be a shot of vodka and flavored water. That is my typical evening drink. I was just reading that women should not be drinking more than 4 3/4 ounces a week and not to drink at least two nights a week if they want to lose weight. So with that as new knowledge…I’ll work on it 😉

Well my other site is up and live. I’m still working on adding some features and I don’t have any additional authors yet. So content will be slow but I really only hoped to get 2-3 posts a month because they will be long (story length). Hit me up if you have any thoughts on contributing.

It’s Hump Day! I woke up this morning and grabbed my pill box and was like ugh it’s only Wednesday?!

I’m hurting! I don’t see my chiropractor until Friday and that is making me cranky LOL I was able to get into one of the masseuses that work in the Chiropractic office so hopefully she can help me with this hip pain a bit. Actually I was able to help the hip pain by rolling on a lacross ball…now it’s just the hamstring that is causing me major pain.

It seems as I am going through all of the layers of bound fascia on my legs one week I free things up really well and then the next I hit a new layer that is super tight…so if these bruises would be done hurting soon, I would actually soak in the tub and work on them some more 🙂 to get to the next better layer. My hubby has today off so maybe I can see if he will help me work on them this evening. That sounds like a super awesome idea ????????

Updated pictures are below. I still want to lose a bit more weight – but I don’t think I look so bad so it’s hard to stick to my diet 🙂 Still working out though.

HI!
I ordered this fun thing last week as a way to help add some fun to my activity! Who says exercise needs to be tedious or even organized to look like exercise? A couple of years ago at the Women’s Expo there was a lady that was selling weighted Hula-Hoops for around $100 or more ???? I knew I wanted a weighted one, but I also knew I didn’t want to spent $100. So when I went onto Amazon and found this one I was very happy. It was like $35

I read the instructions and it says “Only play 1-3 minutes a day the first week.” I’m thinking – Really? I head to the garage so I have room to not kill my dogs or break anything and when I started that thing in motion on my hips I knew why it said only 1-3 minutes LOL OUCH!

If you look close at the design you will see the inner circumference has bumps all along it. Those beat all the muscles around your middle! No wonder it says you can lose up to 2 inches off your waist in a month! LOL I told my sun I was sure it was beating all the fascia around that part of my body to help release the fat stuck in there. You really do have to hold those muscles tight if you don’t want to be poked to death LOL I like it. 3 minutes and I was done!

We went out to dinner last night as planned. I had some yummy Chicken Enchilada dish and something called Tito’s Punch….It was so good. The recipe is in the picture, but the one they serve at Chili’s does not have the cranberry juice in it. I only had one…two would have been really yummy though 🙂

I have a couple pretty fun things I need to go take care of. You have an awesome day!!

I’m really trying to just move on and that is why I took pics. I didn’t do too much damage – I’m a bit bloated, but not bad. If I don’t get right back on track today it can easily go south. Well, MOST of the day will be good. We are going out to dinner to celebrate my work milestone. I have been running a project for 1.5 years and we finally finished the last bit of it this weekend and its was a HIGHLY successful project. 🙂 So dinner and a drink….or two ????

I finally managed to get a hot bath and a full body blast! I typically start on my legs and then work my way up…Yesterday I started on my arms and worked my way down…that worked out very well! I have a few bruises and few tender spots. I know I am still working through some major bound up areas on my hips, butt and hamstrings. My calves are breaking up in spots – but still chunky in areas. I have also concluded that I will need to take my small fasciablaster, my face blaster and my lacross ball with me to Hawaii just to stay out of pain.

26 Days! I am so looking forward to the warm sunny days. We had a nice preview of that this weekend! I sat out on the porch Saturday evening with my hubby and soaked in the sun. I told him I think the sun is my spirit match ???? I can’t wait to take this vacation. I have several things to start talking about when I get back…but I can’t talk about them yet – so if you want to know, stick around LOL

Do you believe in the Law of Attraction? I do. What you think about, you bring about. I printed off 4 pictures and placed them strategically around the house. The top left is a view from my desk chair. As you can see I have a picture of cash and also a house…what you think about you bring about 🙂 I also have one on the refrigerator and in each of the pantry doors…Those are more for reminders of my goals when I head for the food!

I had hoped to get a hot bath and full body blast in yesterday – but with my back pain at the end of the day the spot on the sofa next to my sleeping grandson looked like a better idea. So I took a nap with him. When I woke up my back didn’t hurt as bad. And then after he left I chilled out on the sofa until my hubby got home, then the evening routine kicked in. Dinner – Conversation about the day and basic laziness LOL

I did call my Mom for the first time in several month – I chatted at her for almost an hour 🙂

I am going to get my upper arms blasted shortly though. I ordered these Golds Gym things…I am not sure what to call them. They are neoprene wraps that make you sweat where you have them on. I have had a waist one that I would put on last summer when I first started to blast and really focus on my tummy tuck scar. So the new ones I just bought are upper arm and thigh wraps. I have had the arm ones on for a while sitting here working. I am going to take a break soon and blast that area. I HOPE to go to the gym when my hubby gets home tonight and wear the thigh and tummy one while I walk so when I get home I can hop in the tub/shower….BUT the grandson is here all night so it will depend on him being good 🙂

I look so lovely LOL I need a shower and my hair did – makeup would be good too ????